Description

In Adjumani District, a clash between the police and motorcycle riders commonly known as bodabodas left three people dead including one policeman. This was after police rescued a suspect motorcycle thief from being lynched by the bodaboda riders. In the process of rescuing the suspect, a police officer shot dead one of the riders. In return, bodaboda riders attacked the police station, killing a policeman and a civilian and burning six police motorcycles. The incident was a climax of the tension that has been building up between the bodaboda riders and the police. The bodaboda riders are angry over the rampant theft of their motorcycles and the evident failure by police to investigate and bring the culprits to book.